This MIT climate solutions simulator lets you design the perfect plan to end the climate crisis

Want to know if we can solve the climate crisis by shutting down all coal plants by 2025? What’s the right price for carbon? This simulator that you can run right on your laptop lets you craft your own climate policy.

Experts have offered up an array of solutions for how we can limit global warming to below 2 degrees Celsius: massive investment in renewable energy, a carbon tax, mandating more energy-efficient buildings, and reforesting trillions of trees to sequester carbon from the atmosphere are just a few. But the potential impacts of those actions can feel abstract. It’s hard to wrap our heads around climate change in general, let alone how the actions we need to take to stop it might play out. But a new climate solutions simulator from MIT and the nonprofit Climate Initiatives may be the answer to helping people understand just what needs to be done to turn the tide—and help policy makers and business leaders make the right decisions for our planet’s health.

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Second stimulus checks update: Here’s the latest as Democrats push for more payments

A second stimulus check from the IRS would be nice, but don’t count on it just yet. The bill faces an uphill battle in a Republican-led Congress. Democrats in the House of Representatives put forth a new stimulus package proposal yesterday, and—good news!—it includes a second round of stimulus checks for Americans hurt by the ongoing global pandemic. For example, the 33 million people currently jobless due to COVID-19. Read Full Story

The UK has reported 319 coronavirus cases and 5 deaths. Here's what we know about how the virus is spreading across Britain.

Getty The UK had reported 319 coronavirus cases and five deaths linked to the virus as of Monday afternoon. Two people died on Monday as Boris Johnson updated the nation on the virus. The UK markets are taking a battering as the COVID-19 virus continues to spread across the nation. The UK's chief scientific adviser said that coronavirus outbreaks may become an annual event and that a vaccine is unlikely to be created this year. Johnson's government expects to virus to "spread in a significant way" in the coming days and weeks. Officials are considering plans to order the public to work at home for at least three months. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories . The UK has reported a total of 319 coronavirus cases and five deaths linked to the virus. A patient in his 70s with underlying health conditions passed away on Monday, a spokesperson for the Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust said. It was announced later in the day that a fifth person had d...

A grand optical illusion teases conspiracy under the Louvre

The 183,000-square-foot mural was both an amazing 3D illusion and a metaphor of the ephemeral nature of art itself. An amazing 183,000-square-foot optical illusion collage appeared last Friday at the Louvre’s courtyard showing the imaginary, fantastic guts of the museum’s glass pyramid– only to be destroyed in a few hours by visitors. No, apparently we can’t have nice things, but its destruction was actually part of the art itself. Read Full Story

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